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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

Billy West

I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
BILLY WEST

Dare Ego Something
If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won’t leave people saying, ‘Gee, it could have been better, it could’ve been this, it could’ve been that.’
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Forever People Something Trying
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
I’m not like a high intellectual.
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High Intellectual Like People
John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.
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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying
Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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Bathtub Caught Deal Great Sex Somebody Thinking
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Hero One Own Point World
Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”
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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used

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